The Greenacre Writers Short Story Competition Longlist

Twenty stories from our competition have been long-listed. They are presented in no particular order.

Pride and Joy - Sal Page
Ejecting Foreign Objects - Joanna Campbell
Up or Down? - Dorothy Cox
God the Homeless - Simon Farnham
Picture - Erik Lofroth
Jail Birds - Alice Parrant
The Stars are Screaming - Scott James
An Accident Waiting to Happen - Marie Campbell
Are We There Yet? - Anne Oatley
Birds, Booze and Bikers - Jo Derrick
The Art of Being Late - Julie Swan
A Perfect World - Veronica Bright
Six Bits of Wood - Pam Eaves
The Phantom Cavalier - Wanda Sellar
Up to the Ankles - Amy Flinders
The Art of Infinite Patience - Joanna Campbell
Green Fingers - Deborah Birch
Watermark - Barbara Leahy
The Deaths of Zlatka Vlachova - Sue Healy
The Veteran - Elliot Mayhew

Short Story Competition 2012 Has Closed

Our second short story competition has now closed. Thank you to all those who sent in entries. The variety of themes and writing styles is amazing! Our readers are now busy reading and selecting the long-list and will then decide on the short-list, both of which will be published here, so keep a look out for your story title. The lists will consist of the story titles only until after the final judging, when we will add authors' names.

Good luck!

Last week for competition entries....

The closing date for our short story competition is midnight 31st October 2012, so there are still a few days to polish your entry.  Enter here.

The readers are gearing up to the task of reading and making notes on every entry to produce a longlist, followed by earnest discussions to select the shortlist to be forwarded to our judge Paolo Hewitt.

The longlisted stories will be posted here on the blog, followed by the shortlist, so keep a lookout for the title of your story!

Two weeks to go...

Just two weeks left in which to enter your short story for the second Greenacre Writers Short Story competition. For all the details see  Here

Prize Winning Greenacre Writers Anthology.

We are very pleased to announce that our first anthology was awarded third prize in the National Association of Writing Groups'  Denise Robertson Anthology prize.

Our stories were selected from the winners of our first short story competition and our own members. The top three competition stories win cash prizes, the top six win a year's membership to Greenacre Writers and publication in the anthology.

The second short story competition is under-way and entries are coming in. For your chance to be published in the second volume of our anthology send in your entry now.

For details on purchasing this anthology and how to enter the competition see:

Greenacre Writers Short Story Competition

Two months to go...

There are still two months to write and submit a winning entry to the 2nd Greenacre Writers Short Story Competition.

Greenacre Writers Short Story Competition 2012.

The winning entries will win cash prizes and will be published on this blog and our website and in the second Greenacre Writers Anthology.

Genre: Fiction

Word count: Maximum 2000 words
Prizes: 1st Prize £100, 2nd Prize £50, 3rd Prize £25
(3 Runners up: Greenacre Anthology)

Entry fee: £5 per entry (£5.50 on-line)

Closing date: 31st October 2012
Judge: Paolo Hewitt

About the judge: Paolo Hewitt is a former journalist and author of over 20 books. He has written for Melody Maker and NME, and The Sunday Times. Among other books, he is author of The Jam: A Beat Concerto, The Small Faces: The Young Mod’s Forgotten Story, Getting High: The Adventure of Oasis, and Alan McGee and the Story of Creation Records. His two excursions into fiction include the novels, Heaven's Promise and The Mumper which was recently made into the film, Outside Bet. His highly acclaimed autobiography, The Looked After Kid brilliantly chronicles his time growing up in the care system.

Entries may be made by post: e-mail greenacrewriters@gmail.com for entry form or enter online: Here

Workshop: Plot

* This workshop is now full *

Who dunnit? Why? And what happens next? Learn how to sequence events that take place within the narrative.

Do you get a bit muddled when trying to remember who does what, when and how? If so, this workshop will help. For beginners as well as the more advanced writer. We will design our own plot chart as well as work on creative writing exercises.

Where and when:
Saturday 25th August
25 Chislehurst Avenue
2-5pm

About me:
I am a co-founder of Greenacre Writers. I studied MA Writing at Middlesex University. I’ve recently started submitting stories for competitions – all of which have been either short or longlisted. I’ve written a novel, short stories, and am currently re-writing my autobiography, ‘Bibliotherapy: Stories that Saved my Life’.

For further details or to reserve a place, please contact:
Rosie Canning (MA Writing) 020 8346 9449
Email: greenacrewriters@gmail.com

There will be a small charge to include yummy cakes:
Members £5; Non-members £10